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 | From Megan Romer, your About Books & Literature Editor As you read this, I'm busy drinking beers and chasing chickens (well, probably mostly watching other people do those things, but I can at least pretend to be cool, right?), and just generally having a good enough time for all of those people who aren't fortunate enough to live somewhere with a Carnival or Mardi Gras celebration. | |
Review: 'The Terror of Living' by Urban Waite
A fairly straightforward debut thriller from new novelist Urban Waite, The Terror of Living is, according to our reviewer, an acceptable but certainly not ground-breaking work. Still worth a read? Check out our review and decide!
| Review: 'Swamplandia!' by Karen Russell
Swamplandia!, on the other hand, seems much more worth your time, if you're into that slightly twisted modern Southern gothic comedic family-based sort of stuff. I certainly am!
| Whitman's 'I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing'
And now, to honor Mardi Gras just a touch. It's a holiday where being surrounded by a few thousand of your closest friends is par for the course, so this Walt Whitman poem might be just a touch ironic, though thematic all the same.
| The Setting of 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
New Orleans, home of the most famous Mardi Gras celebrations, is the setting of so many amazing works of literature, which is no surprise, as it has more character than most cities in the world combined. Tennessee Williams chose it for the backdrop of this, his most famous play... but why exactly?
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